Education Breaks The Cycle Of Poverty

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One of our unique global institutions, the United Nations, created the Universal Declaration of Human Rights setting a high bar for how humanity should treat each other.

There are 30 articles the United Nations claim should be human rights for all. Article 26 states: (1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.

(2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance, and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.

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(3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.

These three simples principles exist in this pivotal document for a simple reason; the U.N. was intensely aware that a key to breaking the poverty cycle lay in providing accessible education to all who needed it.

A healthy school provides security and comfort to those attending it, allowing them to feel some semblance of normalcy especially in spaces or times of trouble. It requires communal investment of time, money and care to develop such a space but the importance of such e orts can not be overstated. Secure spaces and the steady presence of adult guidance, supervision and care can be the di erence between a child rising up and falling through the cracks. Again the U.N. leads the way in explaining the global importance of education in breaking poverty. The United Nations Department of Economic and Social A airs developed 17 Sustainable Development Goals for the 2030 agenda for sustainable development. The rst goal is to end poverty. The fourth goal?

Provide access to quality education for all. Time and again the foremost authority in international diplomacy and development express the importance of an accessible education as a human right necessary for defeating poverty.

Why does the U.N. have such faith in education as a means to lifting communities from endemic poverty? Because their are countless statistics that explain the impact e ective education has on individuals. 1 year of primary school increases later wages earned of boys by 5-15%, and that percentage is higher for girls. No nation has managed rapid and continuous economic growth without at least a 40% literacy rate. A child who’s mother can read has a 50% greater chance of surviving to the age of 5.

The beauty of education as a goal for breaking poverty is that it is theoretically implementable anywhere. The key lies in developing a community that cares enough to provide an individualized and nurturing education to the youth it’s raising. A school can be the centerpiece of any community globally and is an investment that consistently pays innumerable dividends.

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